The City and the Common

Sunday 25 October, 2:30-3:30pm Part of This is Not a Gateway Festival Main Hall of the Kobi Nazrul Centre on Hanbury Street Free Entrance The event introduces crucial themes from the project Polis 21, a series of transnational interventions and discussions run by European Alternatives over the month of November in Athens, Zagreb and Belgrade. The themes touched by the salon will be: the way multiple political and cultural factors determine forms of urban exclusions and externality; the potentials for artistic intervention in public spaces regarding forms of exclusions; the potentials for a transnational ‘commons’ and its relations to the urban. A complimentary copy of our magazine will be offered to all those attening. All welcome, audience interaction welcomed! Participants Jilly Traganou, New School of Architecture Parsons the New School of Design, New York Maria Theodorou, School of Architecture for All, Athens Segolene Pruvot, European Alternatives